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Stay Two Nights, Get the Third Free at the Four Seasons Miami During Art Basel
If you haven’t booked your Miami hotel room for Art Basel yet, we have another deal to throw into the mix. Stay at the Four Seasons Miami for three nights and get the third night free. With Art Basel running from December 2–7, the timing is ideal. Sure, rooms at the Four Seasons are on the high end, but this is still a pretty good deal considering how much hotels across the city jack up their rates while all the art buyers are in town.
No promo codes are necessary—you can simply punch in your dates at the hotel’s website, and as long as you stay the minimum three nights, you’ll see the savings reflected in your rates. They start at $376 a night (with tax) once the free night is applied. (It’s $500 a night for the first two nights, nothing for the third). Or, if you’re feeling flush you may want to spring for the one-bedroom suite, which works out to $753 a night, including tax. Rooms in all categories are still available over the Art Basel period.
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Rich Teens Get Everything, Even Custom Spa Treatments at The Four Seasons
Some days we wake up and wish we were teens, don’t you? We could forget about the economic crisis and just worry about vampires and texting and when our parents were taking us on the next fancy vacation to buy our affection. OK, so if we were going to be teens, we’d have to be the Gossip Girl variety, able to throw debauched parties in our fabulous uptown pads, or jet off to exotic resorts at any second.
And if we were, like, to do that? We would totally book ourselves in for one of the new teen treatments offered by certain Four Seasons spas. Only, it’s so hard to choose!
* At the Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora we could get a Star Fruit Manicure.
* The Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai has a Wild Lime Hair Care treatment.
* The Four Seasons Resort Mauritius offers a Sunshine Soother Scrub.
* And at the Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara we can get a Teen Corrective Facial.
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Skip Turkey Dinner for Grilled Lobster at the Four Seasons Punta Mita
We’re all about unconventional holiday excursions — anything to avoid old musical marathons in Aunt Suzie’s basement, really — but we do believe a few traditions should be safeguarded. Like cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. But that’s just us. If on the other hand, turkey dinner has never been your thing, you might prefer a Four Seasons grilled lobster dinner in Punta Mita, Mexico.
Meal preferences aside, you’re likely to find a few things to be extra-thankful for (no musical marathons, for one; also: a sandy beach) when booking the Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita’s “Thanksgiving Beach Escape.” In particular, when you book four nights in a casita room between Nov. 19th and 27th, you’ll get a $500 resort credit. (Or you can upgrade to a one-bedroom suite and nab a $1,500 resort credit.)
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Four Seasons Chicago Unveils New Suites
For those who roll like VIPs when traveling, the Four Seasons Chicago wants to give you an incentive to stay at its newly designed suites with its Suite Rewards package.
For every night you stay at either the one- or two-bedroom suites, the hotel will give you a $100 gift card to The 900 Shops on the Magnificent Mile, which has an indoor entrance via the hotel so you have easy access for those nighttime Gucci cravings; free parking, which regularly costs $46 for valet and $34 for self-parking; and breakfast for two.
And it's not a chintzy continental breakfast, either. The Midwest Breakfast comes with fresh juice; two eggs with bacon, ham or sausage; hash browns; pastries; and coffee, hot chocolate or tea.
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Condé Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards Favor Killer Views, Weird Bathrooms
The stunning coastal views from Hotel Du Palais
They say the customer is always right, and we generally agree. PR pushes and clever marketing can often make a hotel sound better than it is, but leave it to a consumer to give you the inside track with merciless honesty. This is precisely why Readers Choice lists are more trusted than other carefully cultivated round-ups.
Last week, Condé Nast Traveler's unveiled its 22nd Annual Readers Choice Awards, a respectable overview of the best cities, islands, resorts, airlines, and other travel-related miscellany. It's the location-specific hotel and resort "Top Three" lists that caught our eye first, of course, but there were some questionable standouts as well.
Some of the top picks were self-evident, like Biarritz' Hotel Du Palais, honored by readers as the Top European Resort and called out by our discerning HotelChatter family for its stellar beach and pool views. Here on the mainland, meanwhile, Pebble Beach's Inn at Spanish Bay was named one of the Best U.S. Resorts. Having taken in the coastal surroundings along Monterey Peninsula's famed 17-Mile Drive last year, we can vouch for the Inn's luxury credentials.
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Four Seasons Beirut Will Open in December
For all you Four Seasons loyalists out there, you have a new reason to visit Beirut. The Four Seasons Beirut will be opening there in December, joining other Middle East sister properties such as Amman, Damascus, Doha and Riyadh.
The hotel plans to play off its nickname of "The Paris of the Middle East" by giving each room and suite its own private terraces with views of the city, the mountains and the Mediterranean. The hotel will even get a little Miami spice with a rooftop pool that turns into a cocktail and tapas lounge at night. (Expect the pool to open later in Spring 2010.) Rounding out the amenities are a full-service spa, two restaurants and three lounge/bar areas.
There's no word on exact opening date or how much rooms will be, but this is a Four Seasons--you know what to expect.
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For Better or Worse, These Hotels Have Realized 'There's An App For That'
We've been variously hot and cold about hotel chain iPhone apps. As a rule we embrace anything that can help us travel easier while already on the road, and we certainly embrace it if it lives in the App Store. But hotel apps fall into that dicey category where we're not sure that the bother that goes into them is worth whatever comes out.
Hotel iPhone applications generally help you find a nearby chain hotel and check in through your rewards account. Sometimes they may automatically dial customer service. All of which is great except people rarely book within just one chain. Price is usually the most important factor, which means using a search engine, and rarely is someone in so much of a pinch that exact GPS-pinpointed location matters.
As for checking in, well, we're not talking about flights. The hotel will still be there waiting when you arrive, and you'll still have to wait in line to get it. Checking in doesn't have to happen from the road.
Nonetheless, hotels aren't going to stop producing apps. It's just what companies do these days. So here's our roundup of the industry's current offerings. Feel free to sound off in the comments: would you make space on your beloved iPhone for something like this?
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When 67 Steps Are 67 Too Many: The Funicular at Four Seasons Sharm El Sheikh
Note: This video is about two minutes and 20 seconds long, which is how long the funicular ride is. Enjoy!
You know the drill: you’re on holiday, you’re feeling kinda lazy, lying by the pool is great but hauling your bod back to your room is a trial.
Luckily, the folk at the Four Seasons in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, feel your pain, as we found out when we stayed there last week*. The resort is built over five levels running down the cliffside to the Red Sea below. Which is ace, because it gives buckets of space for the 200+ rooms (they’re self-enclosed little cottages), meaning that the resort feels half-empty even when it’s at full capacity as it was while we were there.
The downside, of course, is that with the pool and beach at the bottom of the resort, the reception and restaurants at the top and the rooms in between, your day could involve a lot of walking, which would hardly be conducive to a holiday state of mind.
There are 67 steps between the pool and the lobby – a lot for holiday feet. So to avoid over-stretching your calves (it’s hot, after all), they’ve had a funicular railway shipped over from Sweden to lug your sunburnt bones back to your room. It goes up and down all day, the journey takes just over two minutes and, as you can see from the video, gives you some pretty nice views of the resort.
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Escape The Family Thanksgiving With A Free Night At The Four Seasons
In most parts of the country, all the signs of fall are here: cooler temps, turning leaves, football on TV all weekend, and skimpy Halloween costumes on display at the mall. But not in Miami! (Skimpy costumes are the uniform year-round in South Beach.) The 80-degree days down in South Florida make it hard to remember that we’re meant to be focusing on our Thanksgiving travel plans.
And in fact, if you’d rather spend Thanksgiving in a bikini than in a holiday sweater, the Four Seasons Miami is happy to tempt you away from your familial duties. The fancy hotel in downtown Miami (ie: not at the beach) is offering a "Stay Longer" package this fall, giving guests a complimentary third night with every two consecutive paid nights.
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Four Seasons Resort Vail Aiming For a Summer 2010 Opening
Last time we mentioned the future Four Seasons Resort Vail, we'd heard you could be skiing up to the Four Seasons' door by 2009. Latest reports have the resort opening during summer 2010 (hmm, just not in time for the ski season!) but at least we can see on the Four Seasons Residence Club website that there is definite progress being made.
For the non-residential guest (that means most of us), the Four Seasons Vail will include a choice of 121 rooms, plus tons of amenities like a full service spa and fitness club, a 75-foot lap pool in a sunken courtyard, a ski and snowboard concierge, fine dining restaurant and plenty of parking and gear storage space.
There'll also be the Après Ski Lounge with a dual fireplace and floor to ceiling windows looking out to the Vail Mountain slopes. The resort is pretty much at the main entrance to Vail so it'll be easy to find. No word yet on room prices, but you can buy one of the residences instead if you've got a spare $405,900 lying around.
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Indulge in Fall (Ex)Foliage at Four Seasons Aviara
Leaves turning red and gold then falling from the trees. A distinct chill creeping into the air. Shorter days, longer nights. The return of pale, dry skin. There’s nothing like fall to remind you of the passage of time, and your own aging. Cheerful, no? Well, now you can at least maintain your healthy glow well into winter with the Spa at the Four Seasons Aviara’s Fall Ex "Foliation" treatment.
The new treatment started on September 22, to coincide with the first day of autumn. Spa-goers can now get a special 50-minute treatment that includes an exfoliating scrub, a mud mask, and a massage. When guests arrive at the spa, they are greeted with a meditation and hands-on preparation ritual, then given “reflection cards” with thoughts designed to make them think about the meaning of autumn (maybe they’re not as morbid as we are).
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Four Seasons Westlake Village Goes Extreme with Weight Loss Package
We're not sure we'd have a smile on our face after five days of fattie bootcamp.
Everyone is looking to shed a few pounds, but if you want to do it in a hurry, Biggest Loser style, check into the Four Seasons Westlake Village, whose California Health & Longevity Institute was featured in the TV show's premiere episode this month.
The CHLI offers a crazy-intense five-day Weight Loss Training package that's all weight-focused, all of the time. For a staggering $4,700 (which doesn't include hotel accommodations), you'll get a medical evaluation with a physician, including lab analysis; a choice of three alternative medicine treatments, such as hypnotherapy, energy healing or acupuncture; a read of your body mass composition in a space capsule-looking thing called a BOD POD; fitness assessments; a consultation with an exercise specialist and four personal training sessions; along with nutrition advice from a registered dietitian; follow up strategies and tools to keep up the healthy living after you check-out.
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